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Wednesday July 09, @04:10PM
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Hillary Clinton voted against the FISA bill.

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  • Obama votes for and Clinton votes against? What the hell is going on around here?

    • Politics.

      Most Americans couldn't care less about this issue, if they know about it at all. A "yea" vote risks angering the few of his supporters who are a small cross-section of informed voters and civil-rights-minded voters, while a "nea" vote risks giving McCain "soft on terror" fuel for the coming months.

      He's betting that most of the people he pisses off will swallow it and vote for him anyway and that, in any case, he'd lose more support by allowing McCain to whip up a "soft on terror" frenzy later in t

      • Meh. You make a good point, but I still like to think the electorate has gotten a teensy bit wiser regarding the war on terror, if for no other reason than there's a whole other bunch of much bigger problems hapenning and to come shortly.

  • Interestingly, McCain didn't vote. Could this become an issue? I remember one of the right-wing talking points of the '04 election was how Kerry didn't show up for some number of votes on some committee or something.

    Also, I'm surprised Klobuchar (I'm a Minnesotan) voted no. Then again I haven't followed her voting record very closely.

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